Tilly the Trickster

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon is brilliant, which means her 2011 children's book Tilly the Trickster is brilliant, which means the theatrical adaptation of said book must be — well, see for yourself tonight at 6. That's when the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company debuts Tilly the Trickster on the museum's Second Stage (30 W. Dale St., csfineartscenter.org). For a preview, consider the parents lamenting back and forth to each other on "Where Did We Go Wrong?": "I must be incompetent, or worse / You are worse / You tried to be consistent, firm or strong / But I failed / Now Teddy's really bad at math / And Tilly is a psychopath / Where did we go wrong?" — Bryce Crawford